You Can

By George Mattew Adams

"You Can" - is a collection of brief talks on the crucial topic of Success by George Matthew Adams, an American newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service. This book will make you wonder whether you really have it in you to accomplish your pursuits, win over obstructions, and thrive in life. Through the empowering self-help manual, you can. It is written to boost personal growth and well-being for anyone who reads it. 

George Matthew Adams talks about things to be done to pave your way to a fulfilling, flourishing life-such as sitting for an hour in silence to shape your creative vision, going the extra mile in serving others, letting your qualities rule your work, examining your mistakes, learning to utilize time, and much more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stargatebook
• Release date: Sep 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9791221394276

Book preview

50-50

No man in all this world ever rightfully Gets more than he Gives. And if he does he is just a plain Thief -a discredit first to Himself, then to everybody else. The Equal Division is always the Just Division-half to you and half to him. In other words, on the basis 50-50.

Be glad to Give as much as you Take.

You who are an Employee, are you Sure you are giv ing in Service as much as you are taking in Money, Experience, Inspiration and Training from your Em ployer? Right now, take invoice. Do the results look like-50-50? If not, start this plan into action

Be glad to Give as much as you Take.

This plan of 50-50-rightly interpreted, means death to Whiners, to the Disgruntled, and to the As sassinators of Success. They can't five in the atmos phere of it. The Air is too Invigorating.

Be glad to Give as much as you Take.

Every dispute in this World is traceable to the lack of the 50-50 principle. The broken-up Homes, the disintegrated Businesses, the abandoned Friend ships, the wasteful Armies of the World. There is need d this principle in every phase of Life. But never will it become a rule of every-day Action until YOU, in your place, begin to apply-50-50.

Be glad ti give as much as you take.

Silence

Yes, Silence is many times Golden. You know that. But try to realize it more strongly. For the Silent Man is usually the Thinking Man and the Silent Worker is the Get-Things-Done Worker. But best of all, Silence as a rule of daily life Conduct makes you Big and Powerful.

Don't talk Back.

The World's great Doers have all been Men and Women of few words-Napoleon, Cromwell, Wash ington, Grant, Lincoln, Marshall Field-Edison. These men didn't have time for disputes, wrangles revenges.

Don't talk Back.

The World is coming to the Idea of Silence-fewer Words, more Deed-doing. It is the big Law of Nature. It is becoming the great Law of Business. For Silence can't be answered. There is nothing to answer. Don't talk Back.

Look around you. You admire the Silent people those who mind their own business and Build. You know the names of the Useful men of your town. You can't waste their time-you can't get them mad. You can't steal anything from them. Their Si lence is their Wealth and every time they walk along the streets they speak volumes. Add another motto to those you may already have. Make it this—Silence. Don’t talk Back.

Health

Few people Wear out before their time. Mostly they Rust out, Worry out, Run out—Spill out. A Machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No Machine has ever approached the Human Machine. When it is right, it is in Health. Make Confidants of Air and Exercise. No great Battle was ever won with antiquated Artillery. Nor is it possible for Men or Women to give the best that is in them, aided by weak, ill cared for, abused Bodies. For Health puts on the alert every quality of Soul and makes the Brain and Heart and Nerve stations work in even unison, throbbing out big things in Deeds. Make Confidants of Air and Exercise. Pure Air, wholesome Exercise, a few good Hobbies put an edge to a human being that all the Pills in creation can’t equal. In addition, by touching up your Pace with plenty of 22-Karat Smiles, you have briefly a Home Remedy for Health of great power and very practicable. Make Confidants of Air and Exercise. You have time to eat, you have time to make money, you have time to take to your bed when abuse brings on aches—you will have to take time to die.

It is good sense, then, to take time to get Health.

Make Confidants of Air and Exercise. Everybody is quickened and inspired by the vibrating Health and warm Magnetism that is felt instantly from the Healthy man. He is the man who does things. He is the man who is a Success. He is the fellow who has time to take on Air and Exercise and grasp Health. Also he is the one who accomplishes twice the work of the weakling and has the MOST time. Make Confidants of Air and Exercise. If you aspire for large jobs, of necessity you must aspire for—and get—a vigorous Body, filled to the brim with Health. (Half of Health is in the Mind. The rest is in getting into the Air and giving every Muscle of the body and every organ a good daily stirring tip with use and Exercise. Let this thought radiate from your face and bearing toward every man, woman, or child that you meet: I am a Happy, Healthy Human Being! Make Confidants of Air and Exercise.

Character

Character is the sum total, worthwhile, of what a man has after he has won all and the sole thing he has left after he has lost all. Character is Power. J. Pierpant Morgan, the greatest single power in Finance in all the world, at the time of his death, once stated under oath, that Character is the only gauge of a man, or the only rule by which he can be gauged in business, and that physical assets are therefore of secondary importance. Character is Power. The walls of Character that a man builds will withstand the most merciless assaults that any man can direct at them. Ta man’s or a woman’s good Character is absolutely unassailable. Reputation may be besmirched—but not Character. For Reputation is what people may say a man is, but Character is. what he really is. Character is Power. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends—there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless—be unhappy—and die a bankrupt in Soul. But—Character pays out endless Dividends, molds a man into a mighty Deed-doer, and builds for him a deathless Name. Character is Power. Character is Power in Business, in the Home, on the Street—everywhere. And it’s free for the asking to the man willing to be kind, honest, square, broad, generous, loyal, fearless—Big! Stamp your Character deeper on people to-day and make it rule your work. Let it lead you on. But fight every hour to make it stronger For— Character is Power.

Mistakes

Study your Mistakes. There are two kinds of Mistakes. Those that happen from ordinary human mis-thinking and those that come from carelessness and petty un-thinking. Study your Mistakes. No one ever gets too big to make Mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his Mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them. After one of Henry Ward Beecher’s sermons in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, a young man came up to him and said: Mr. Beecher, did you know that you made a grammatical error in your sermon this morning? A grammatical error, answered Beecher, I’ll bet my hat that I made forty of them. Half of the power of the forceful man springs out of his Mistakes of one sort or another. They help to keep him human. Study your Mistakes. But the Mistakes that tear away the power of a man, weaken him, and make him flabby, are the stupid, the reckless Mistakes. The Clerk who forgets, the Stenographer that doesn’t care, the Worker who ne

neglects—these are the ones whose life blood and vitality is sapped and sucked away into failure. Study your Mistakes. One of the great things of each day for you is to do your best—unmindful of Mistakes. But after your work is done and you realize your blunders, don’t shirk, don’t whine, don’t despond, but— Study your Mistakes. Then profit from them—and go ahead!

Ruts

One of the important lessons of this life is to learn to keep out of Ruts. Everyone is bound to strike them at times. But they should be gotten out of—immediately. For to stay in a Rut is to stick still—and stagnate, while others pass you and forget you. Keep your eyes Open and your Mind Awake. Watch out for the Imitation Rut—the Rut that takes you away from your own Work and your own Ideas and makes a Duplicate out of you instead of an Original. Creators stand in a class by themselves. Pay tribute to the Head on your own shoulders. Get the habit of Initiation. Keep your Eyes Open and your Mind Awake. Think. Get together new Ideas. Welcome them. Read.